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    Poland's Largest Field May Be Even Bigger

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PGNiG has said that its legacy Przemysl gas field may be nearly 25% greater than first estimated.

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Poland's Largest Field May Be Even Bigger

Polish gas group PGNiG has said that its legacy Przemysl gas field may be nearly 25% greater than first estimated. That's an extra 20bn m3 of resources.
 
New estimates were created based on 3D seismic images and now the company will firm them up with more wells. Przemysl is Poland's largest gas field and has produced for 60 years and until recently was considered to be almost fully depleted. Many years ago Przemysl's resources were estimated at 72bn m3, and already 65bn m3 have been extracted. The field is in the Polish Carpathian mountains, in southeast Poland, near the border with Ukraine.
 
PGNiG CEO Piotr Wozniak however said February 13 that new geological data, based on the 3D seismic imaging and the first three wells to be drilled there recently, meant that that Przemysl's potential resources may be almost 20 bn m3 greater than first thought: "We shall conduct drilling to verify the calculation of its resource potential."  So far, state-run PGNiG has drilled three recent wells to gas level (horizon) VIIIa, during which gas flowed at between 100 and 150 m3  per minute, as NGW reported earlier this month. 

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